Examples & Explanations: Antitrust

Antitrust: Examples & Explanations is designed to be accessible to students with no background in economics, but also sophisticated enough for advanced courses on anti-trust law. Author Christopher Sagers provides straightforward introductions to the principles of antitrust law and uses the proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy to illustrate the practical applications of the principles described under each topic.

Antitrust, a timely and succinct study guide, features:

• a two-pronged approach to describing the economics of antitrust law
• an intuitive, non-quantitative introduction, followed by
• traditional and quantitative economic analysis
• a consistent emphasis on real-world business transactions for example, the book gives extensive, accessible background material to put things like mergers and acquisitions, marketing, and product distribution into real-world context
• comprehensive coverage
• the Sherman and Clayton Acts
• the Robinson-Patman Act
• merger review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
• procedural and institutional complexities of antitrust law
• antitrust law vis-a-vis innovation and intellectual property
• the scope of antitrust law, including comprehensive coverage of the many antitrust immunities and exemptions
• systematic organization, from the most general to the most specific
• advanced topics such as oligopoly theory, monopolistic competition, and product distribution